Russia
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...many former Soviet client states, and used its economic...destruction, and as the United States pressed in 2003 for a Security...that was soon acquired by a state-run oil company. Khodorkovsky...a major victory for the United Russia bloc and its allies...deaths more of more than 300 people, many of them children...and diminished its federal aspects. The federal government...itself accused of using its state-controlled gas monopoly...the Ukrainian presidential race. When negotiations failed...